Sheila Lowe is a British-born novelist and graphologist who has lived in the United States since 1964. Her first book was published in 1999 and became a bestseller in the Complete Idiot's Guides series. Her second book was released a year later. In 2007, the first edition of Poison Pen, the beginning of her Claudia Rose forensic mystery series came out with a small publisher, Capital Crime Press. When Poison Pen received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, who called it "a dynamite debut," Kristen Weber, then-senior editor at New American Library, picked it up and published the first four books in the series. She is currently the president of the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation. Awards 2000 Southwest Writers Conference competition, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category 2007 USA Book News, Fiction & Literature: Mystery/Suspense Bibliography Poison Pen Written in Blood Dead Write Last writes: a forensic handwriting mystery Inkslingers Ball Outside The Lines What She Saw The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis Handwriting of the Famous & Infamous References External links Official website Living people British writers Writers from London Year of birth missing (living people)